Don’t worry, I read theory.

The dream of the oppressed is to eat twinkies

I’ll take one idiot that’s trying their hardest over a dozen smug geniuses that won’t lift a finger to help.

Nobody will ever make you proud of yourself. You are the only person that can do that. If you’re not willing to try, please let me know and I’ll stop wasting my time.

We need a revolution. We need help. It’s time to put up or shut up.

I’ll give you that people are stupid, but only if it applies to you and me as well.

I see the flaws in humanity and I still love us. I hope one day you’ll find it in yourself to love us too.

“the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.” - Che Guevara

Why are you posting this? What do you want?

Nobody here can make you care. We can’t open your heart for you. I find this talk inspiring, but I’m sure you’ll find reasons not to like it. Don’t bother telling me them, I don’t care.

If you don’t like people, then people won’t like you. Frankly, your post makes me not like you. I assume that you’re posting because you’re looking for help, though, and I want to help you, but I see you batting away help and I don’t really want to put in effort if you won’t.

You wanna wallow in sadness? Fine, but don’t expect others to drag you out. In the future, I’d ask that you clearly indicate that you’re not looking for advice.

I’m sorry you’re hurting :(

Heartache can take many shapes - what does yours specifically look like? What feelings are you struggling with?

In a just world, discovering that you’re trans would be a time of celebration. Your community would gather around you to help support you in whatever way they could. It would still be a long and difficult journey, but the path would be clear and you would not go alone.

I’m so sorry that you feel like there is no hope. My heart breaks for you. Please know that I value your life.

I know the road is hard.
I know you feel you can not make it.
I’m begging you to try.

I’m asking you to look within yourself and find something worth fighting for.

A woman, whose life has just begun.
Your friends, who need you just as you need them.
A human, that has endured immense suffering and is still fucking standing.

You inspire me.

Hell, fight just to outlive your enemies.

I don’t know you, but I know you are a human, and because of that I know you can make it.

I know you can stare down suicidal thoughts.
I know you can face the hate.
I know you can handle the dysphoria.

You already have.

Your journey is long, but we are with you. The path is obscured, but many here have navigated it before. It will be slow, but it WILL get better.

It may not be that useful for you, but I made a blog post of my stream of conciseness during a manic episode that’s a bit of a battlecry. It’s… certainly unhinged, but you may find some inspiration from it.

What’re the things you’re most upset by?

No problem! I hope that you’re able to find a job and can keep your house, but it’s nice that you have your parents to fall back on if it doesn’t work out.

Fwiw, I’ve given up on dating and it’s been very good for my mental health. I was spending a lot of time trying to find an SO, but lately I’ve been putting that time into hobbies instead and have been much happier. If I bump into someone, I’m open to dating, but that’s not the goal (or the desire, even. Dating is a lot of work)

Obviously, that may not be an option for you, but something to consider.

Best of luck!

Woof. Yeah that’s tough :/ I’m sorry you’re feeling so low. Congrats on the temp gig though!

have to live with my parents as a 30 year old

Is this mostly a pride thing, or are your parents bad people?

No one I can talk to

Fear not! You have access to dozens, maybe even HUNDREDS of terminally online communists!

No real motivation to even try anymore

Burnout is the devil. I hope you can recharge

within the last few days I’ve come to question my sexuality

Exciting!!! That does seem like a challenging situation re: not being a chaser, and honestly idk the answer. The fact that you’re worried about being one is a good sign, though! Maybe ask here how to respectfully date trans women?

My (cishet) opinion is that you should try it out if you’re able. As long as it’s between consenting adults, there’s no “wrong” sexuality, and never questioning the default is lame.

I can only see it getting worse and that’s what gets me

Yeah… that’d get me too. By “it” do you mean your specific situation, or things in general?

If it’s the former, at least you have a whole new world of sexuality to explore!

If it’s the latter, I’ve made a couple posts about my optimism, but I understand the call of doomerism.

Do you mind if I ask what’s going on?

Oh hell yeah I love an emergent property. That’s my new favorite theory

nutritional needs

looks inside

all seven essential food groups studied: grains, vegetables, fruits, dairy, meat, staples, and fish

Sorry vegans, looks like you can’t meet your nutritional needs :smuglord:

Some don’t, but it’s a vast minority. It’s certainly not the prevailing belief on reddit.

The belief “women have no value, and are only useful as sex objects,” is fringe, redpill, loser shit.

The belief “attractive women are more valuable than unattractive women” is peak reddit.

I can’t think of a belief that more succinctly describes the problem with reddit.

I have honestly never been more bloomer in my life.

EVERYONE is thinks things suck.
EVERYONE is pissed.
EVERYONE is trying to do something about it.

The only problem is that people don’t know why things suck, or how to make it better.

Fascists think things suck because of [minority], and so they want to get rid of [minority].

Liberals think things suck because of the fascists, and so would like everyone to just play nice and we can work this all out, please.

But WE know.
WE know the problem! IT’S CAPITALISM!!!
WE know the solution! KILL CAPITALISM!!!

If everyone in the world woke up tomorrow and knew what we know, the suffering would stop.

The collective rage that we see in society would be directed at the true enemy instead of each other, and nothing in the world is more powerful than people working together to solve their problem.

The only thing we must do to win, the only thing that truly matters, is to get everyone to understand.

History has blessed us with the ultimate weapon.

A material power that Marx and Lenin and Sankara and Newton could not dream of wielding in their wildest fantasies.

NOW is the moment in history for revolution.
Capitalism WILL fall in our lifetimes.
I’ll be surprised if it lasts twenty years.

The contradictions have become undeniable.
The people want change, they just need direction.

And for the first time in history, we have a direct line to every single one of them.

Don’t you DARE quit on us.
We need everyone we can get.

Now get back to posting, soldier.

Unpopular opinion: critical support.

Hear me out.

More than anything, this pattern is caused by patriarchy.

Racism is obviously at play, but it only adds flavor. Someone mentioned people mourning the loss of “big booty latinas,” the operative words are clearly “big booty.” It’d only be slightly less gross if they said “big booty women.”

The patriarchal belief that many people have is “all else equal, attractive women have more value than unattractive women.”

Patriarchy encourages infinite debate on exactly how much value a women’s attractiveness has, and the common belief is that very attractive women are highly valued.

These pictures are only interesting to chuds because western media has systematically dehumanized folks the middle east so that our governments could attack them without public backlash.

They have been propagandized to believe that people in the middle east have no value, and these pictures challenge that.

Ultimately, these pictures are weaponizing patriarchy against imperialism. “Oh my god, I didn’t realize we were bombing something of value” is a realization that more folks needs to have, but it’s really icky that this was an effective way to do it.

I choose to believe the OP made an intentional decision to do that, and the fact that it caught on means that it worked.

If the goal is that more folks see people in the middle east as humans with value, I’ll excuse leveraging people’s existing shitty beliefs to do so.

The ends justify the means, but the means justify a shower.

Are you saying that they should have done community policing without the protests? I.e. the protests drew additional attention from the state that community policing on it’s own wouldn’t have?

That’s a great point. A protest calls attention to the organization (by design), and when that’s done by an organization that also takes militant anti-state action, it’s a recipe for crackdown.

My analysis after this discussion is that militant action is a necessary component of a resistance movement, but that mutual aid networks build real power outside capitalism. Our strategy needs to consider how to react when crackdowns inevitably occur, with an understanding that direct opposition is impossible because of the institutional power in the imperial core.

I’ll probably make a separate post about that, but if you have thoughts or know of any existing theory in that realm I’d be interested in learning!

Fair, Luigi is a shining example of violence winning public support

Right, I mostly mean ideological suppression.

What nonviolent mutual aid that was promoted by the state are you thinking of? I can’t think of anything that’s part of the capitalist narrative, but I could be missing something.

I am actively involved, and I’m afraid. We should all be afraid. I do not want what happened to the black liberation movement to happen to us, and I’m trying to think of ways to avoid that.

If dude lives to be 150, that absolutely advances science!

No, we won’t know which of his wacky hijinks did it, but we will learn that it is possible and that some combination of the stuff he did actually works.

The science would then be mechanical: try different combinations of his experiments, and see what makes people’s lives longer.

He’s got an experiment population of exactly one. The only way for his one lifespan to be relevant to science is if it is a historic outlier.

I don’t think it’s important to delve into the origin story of the hypothetical, since I’m mostly curious about how the state and capitalist superstructures would have been likely to react.

But if it’s important to you: MLK was promoting nonviolence during the liberation movement. In the hypothetical, let’s say he was able to convince the entire movement commit to nonviolence.